shelter
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Zwilling got to the shelter around 7:40 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The regional administration issued an alert earlier in the night warning residents to take shelter.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The opposition movement, she believes, fails to notice the hardship she sees at the bar—the women waiting for a spot at the shelter, or the regulars stretching a drink since their homes are empty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Either go to a shelter -- the metro or a basement -- in advance, accepting a disrupted and uncomfortable night of half-sleep.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
Minutes later, they were circling the rundown shelter where they had left Brian.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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Volunteers from the charity visit feral colonies across Leeds, providing food, water and shelters to keep them warm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The 2026 Homeless Count recorded just 27 unhoused individuals in 16 dwellings, such as vehicles, tents or makeshift shelters, in Malibu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Normally busy streets became eerily quiet as police directed traffic to pull over and waved people into shelters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Netting and wire meshes around infrastructure can be useful against drones, and hardened shelters can help protect resources that have to be on the surface, such as aircraft, fuel, personnel and equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
They also dig underground bomb shelters that can hold as many as one thousand people.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The jury which condemned Patterson to prison were supposed to be isolated - sheltered from the frenzy surrounding the case while they deliberated.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
This year, its 638 beds became part of a jigsaw puzzle of new beds and vacancies that added up to Skid Row’s increase of 614 sheltered residents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Another of the rare adults among the migrants camped out in the complex, a woman of 45, sheltered nearby, her face burned red by the sun.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
“They suffered and they did their duty,” Sledge writes, “so a sheltered homeland can enjoy the peace that was purchased at such high cost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
When the snow stopped, I saw that we had sheltered beneath the great pine at the top of our ridge.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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Yugo said hundreds of homes in Nitung Village were severely damaged by the earthquake, and that residents had been sheltering in makeshift shelters.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rather, it was accompaniment: feeding, sheltering, driving, watching, and warning so no one had to move in isolation.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in surrounding areas, but Bordeaux's mayor said there were no plans to evacuate the urban area, home to 850,000 people and currently sheltering thousands evacuated from zones close by.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Before his career took off, Reilly volunteered for the United Farm Workers and lived an ascetic life, sheltering in church halls, as he ministered to the poor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
“My nephew. He left this morning. His wife and their baby are sheltering at my sister’s house.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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